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Summary: Audiocassette review
Review: First, I must say that I loved the book Rising Tides; in fact, I thought the trilogy was one of Nora Roberts' best. Since I enjoy listening to books on tape while I am commuting, I checked out this book's unabridged version from the library.Of course, the story line, whether read or heard, holds up well, but I was a bit taken aback at the voice of Cameron Quinn. I realize that one narrator must convey all of the characters' voices and maintain the listener's understanding of who is thinking or saying the statement, but, really. David Stuart made Cam sound like a 70 year old, 3 pack a day smoker with throat cancer. His gravelly voice really distracted from this audio. I have also listened to the unabridged version of Sea Swept (also recorded by David Stuart), and he did Cam's voice in a much more moderate style. Still, an enjoyable listen, and all of the positive reviews given the book's hardcover and paperback versions still apply.
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Summary: Not as good as the first book in the Quinn Brother's series.
Review: I enjoyed Rising Tides, which is the second book in Nora Robert's Quinn Brother's Trilogy. However, I didn't get into the character of Ethan like I did with the character of Cam in Sea Swept. Ms. Roberts continued with the "mystery" of who Seth really is, and showed how he was slowly learning to trust all of them. Can't wait for the third and final book.
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Summary: The Quinn Family Saga Continues On......
Review: I enjoyed the book overall. This is a wonderful series about an adoptive family that works well together no matter what. The heart and soul of the Maryland Eastern Shore are its watermen, the men who make their livings on the Chesapeake Bay and its channels. They face hardships, storms, short seasons. Day after day and year after year they ply the waters-setting their crab pots, dredging for oysters-and are privy to a world many of us will never know. Seeing the red dawn break over dark water, watching a storm roll in slow and black from the east. In their rubber boots and gloves, they pilot their workboats through frigid dawns or sweltering afternoons searching for the blue crab the area is famous for. Ethan Quinn is a waterman. He wasn't born to this tradition, but he embraced it. He's a quiet man whose heart runs as deep as the waters he loves. In Rising Tides, he faces more than the challenge of making his living on the Bay or struggling to make the fledgling boat business he and his brothers began a success. There's Seth, a young boy who needs him, and a woman and child he wants to love, but never felt he could have. To shape his life around them, Ethan will have to face his own dark past, and accept himself for who he is, and also what he wants to become.
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Summary: My favorite of the Quinn brothers series
Review: I have to say this was my favorite of the four books because Ethan and Grace were such a wonderful twosome. It was nice to read for a change a story about a real working class single mother, pinching pennies, driving a heap of a car and the fisherman who loves her. It just seems like every book I read, everyone is rich. I loved the relationship between Ethan and Seth. It was those two that could really relate to each other. The relationships are touching and it was fun to see Cam and Anna back in this one, still lusting after each other as much as they did in their story. Though Ethan and Grace's story was my favorite, my favorite character is and remained through all four books, Cam. He was a hard-a**ed guy but the possessiveness and love he felt toward Seth was touching. All four books are very well written. Don't miss any of them.
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Summary: Live and learn
Review: I listened to the book on tape. I was impressed. I thought I was going to dislike it, because I'm not a romanticist and of the few things I've read in the romance genre, I derived little pleasure, much boredom. This one was different. Some of it may have been the drama that the reading puts into it. It was read very well, sorry I don't have the man's name. But there was some drama, and some emotional scenes, toward the end. When Grace reconciles finally with thick-headed Ethan, when Ethan asks her will she let him be her daughter's (step) father, it is touching, even for a non-romantic. The only thing a little out of whack was Ethan's belief that his mother's slovenliness would be hereditary. At one point, he inventories hereditary factors, like weak hearts or hair color, but then he throws in something that was clearly a learned behavior, his mother's being very unmotherly. Oh, some of it might be attributed to her hormone system or even a brain malfunction, but he clearly didn't have those problems. Maybe he thought it was one of those generation-skipping disabilities? Anyway, Ethan seemed to be confusing nature and nurture. An introductory psychology course would have cleared up the matter for him long before he had to be "wailed" out by Grace, fed up with his intransigence. I'm going to try other books by Nora Roberts, and also J.D. Robb, her other nom de plume. Diximus.
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Summary: Live and learn
Review: I listened to the book on tape. I was impressed. I thought I was going to dislike it, because I'm not a romanticist and of the few things I've read in the romance genre, I derived little pleasure, much boredom. This one was different. Some of it may have been the drama that the reading puts into it. It was read very well, sorry I don't have the man's name. But there was some drama, and some emotional scenes, toward the end. When Grace reconciles finally with thick-headed Ethan, when Ethan asks her will she let him be her daughter's (step) father, it is touching, even for a non-romantic. The only thing a little out of whack was Ethan's belief that his mother's slovenliness would be hereditary. At one point, he inventories hereditary factors, like weak hearts or hair color, but then he throws in something that was clearly a learned behavior, his mother's being very unmotherly. Oh, some of it might be attributed to her hormone system or even a brain malfunction, but he clearly didn't have those problems. Maybe he thought it was one of those generation-skipping disabilities? Anyway, Ethan seemed to be confusing nature and nurture. An introductory psychology course would have cleared up the matter for him long before he had to be "wailed" out by Grace, fed up with his intransigence. I'm going to try other books by Nora Roberts, and also J.D. Robb, her other nom de plume. Diximus.
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Summary: rising tides
Review: I loved the whole trilogy. But I fell harder for Ethan than the other brothers. He's the stong, mostly silent type, who uses his brain and thinks things through. My type of man. Grace and Aubrey are very lucky to have him to come home to. What happened to Ethan as a child makes you cringe, but that he overcame that to become the man he did is a true testiment to what love can do. Excellent!
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Summary: Not near as good as SEA SWEPT
Review: I really didn't enjoy RISING TIDES. SEA SWEPT was much better. Unlike SEA SWEPT, this one focuses on Ethan. Cameron from SEA SWEPT was a better character. He was more realistic. Ethan seems very two dimensional, and a little dense. Also, we have to endure Ethan and Grace's blossoming romance, which I didn't care for. I was more anxious to read of Seth and the family issues. But, this one does have its moments, and it goes from good to bad to good. I also love the setting, the shores of the Chesapeake. So, I was a little mixed. I hope INNER HARBOR, part 3, is better than the sequel in the Quinn Brother's trilogy :)
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Summary: better then the first
Review: I really enjoyed Rising Tides....I thought it was better than Sea Swept because I really got into the characters more than the first. I love Grace....she is just a strong woman...she was someone I could reallly relate to....And Ethan....well what can I say....A sweet and shy man.....He is prefect!
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Summary: Second in the Quinn Trilogy, fantastic!
Review: I really enjoyed this one more than the first. I think it's because I liked Ethan more than Cameron. Ethan is more down-to-earth and seems to understand hard work and responsibility than his brother Cameron. Ethan seem more determined to make things work for the brothers and their budding business of boatbuilding. The romance between Ethan and Grace, an old family friend was much sweeter and more believeable than the one between Cameron and the social worker Anna. ~Ethan Quinn shares his father's love of boatbuilding and the shores of Maryland and Chesapeake Bay. He is determined to make this boatbuilding venture work out to its fullest. They have their father's last dying wish of seeing to a new member of the family, Seth have a good life. Ethan is determined to see that Seth has a decent life after what his errant mother has done to him.
Anna Spinelli, now a Quinn, after marrying Cameron in "SeaSwept", is Seth's social worker and friend. She is trying to make the courts see that his life is in danger by staying with a mother that uses him and takes money for favors. Anna also knows a deep and dark secret she is hiding from the world about one of the brothers. Grace Monroe has known Ethan all her life and loved him all her life. She never believes he would love her return, but when things get tangled and she realizes he loves her as much as she loves him, she must also face a horror that is threatening to keep them apart.
Can Ethan overcome his past and grab onto the only love and happiness he wants? Or will he let his horrors keep him from true love and a new life... The trilogy is coming to a climax, as evident in this second installment. Will we find out Seth's true father? Is he a true Quinn? Or is it all a lie? Can Ethan let his past go completely, or will it come haunting him again? Will Anna be able to deal with all the consequences if they lose Seth? Can Cameron deal with knowing Seth might suffer the same fate as he when he was young? The last installment is about the last brother, Phillip. The sure and level-headed one. Phillip has been in the background the first two books trying to work things out for them all and trying to track down Seth's blackmailing mother. I am sure this series will go out with a bang!
1. SeaSwept 2. Rising Tides 3. Inner Harbor Tracy Talley~@
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